It's a more general version of the topic How to use Nominatim API through PHP to retrieve latitude and longitude? which was asked in June 2017.
Currently, I just get an empty response.
Is it still possible to use the API with PHP file_get_contents
?
Example API call
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header
$url = 'https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=grindelwald&countryCodes=CH&addressdetails=1&format=json';
$options = [
'http' => [
'user_agent' => 'Simon Ferndriger',
],
];
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
I recommend using the guzzle package for HTTP requests.